I’m just catching up to the news that Portland’s absolute legend #Darcelle has left this existence. The world has become a little less sparkly. #DragIsArt
I hope that I will still be calling out homophobes and raising half as much hell at 92 as she did.
Associated PressDarcelle, world's oldest working drag queen, dies at 92PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Walter C. Cole, better known as the iconic drag queen who performed for decades as Darcelle XV, has died of natural causes in Portland, Oregon. Cole was 92. Darcelle, who died Thursday, was crowned the world’s oldest working drag performer in 2016 by the Guinness Book of World Records and was regaling audiences until the very end.